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Drachm - Asklepiades, son of Demados
| Issuer | Erythrai (Ionia) |
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| Year | 325 BC - 315 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | A tall club, depicted vertically in the centre of the field, flanked to the left by a heron standing right and to the right by a lyre, the civic symbols of Erythrai. The magistrate's name ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΑΔΗΣ and his patronymic ΔΗΜΑΔΟΣ are inscribed vertically in the field, and the ethnic abbreviation ΕΡΥ appears to the lower left, all in crisp Greek letters. The composition is arranged in the compact, inscription-heavy style typical of late Classical Erythraian drachms issued under named magistrates. The flan edges are irregular and the surface shows the natural flow lines of a hand-poured silver blank. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Erythrai occupied an uncomfortable position throughout the fourth century, caught between Athenian ambitions and Persian authority before Alexander's campaign reshuffled the entire Aegean order. These magistrate-signed drachms — naming both the issuing official and his father — reflect a civic administration reasserting its identity during precisely that unsettled transition, somewhere between Macedonian liberation and the chaos of the Diadochi. The dual naming convention is unusually formal for a coin of this module and points to a magistracy of some local prestige.